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What was the oil tanker doing when it exploded in the Gulf of Mexico?
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∙ 12y ago
It was not an oil tanker, but a drilling platform.
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What was the name of the oil carrier that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico?
The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, while drilling the Maconda well. It is not an oil carrier or tanker.
What oil tanker did the oil spill in the gulf of Mexico?
The Mega Borg tanker spilled oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 1990.
What exploded in the Gulf of Mexico?
An oil platform, resulting in an oil spill.
What is the name of the oil rig that exploded in the gulf of Mexico?
Deepwater Horizon
What is the cause of the oil spill of the gulf of Mexico?
There was a oil rig owned by BP that exploded.
Were any people killed when the gulf of Mexico oil rig exploded?
11 men died.
Where is the oil that is spilling into the Gulf of Mexico coming from?
The oil is coming from the deepwater horizon rig. It exploded causing a oil spill
What are the producers of the Gulf of Mexico?
if you mean what produced the gulf of Mexico, the earh did wen the tectonic plates split apart millions of years ago. If you mean who produced the gulf of Mexico oil spill, it was bp (British petroleum). An oil tanker spilt aprox. 11 milion gallons of oil while on it's way to the USA
What is the cause of the oil spill in gulf of Mexico?
The cause of the oil spill was that gases in one pipe were building up and then it eventually exploded.
What large body of water lies southeast of Texas?
The Gulf of Mexico touches Texas and Florida.
Which is larger the Gulf Of Mexico or the Gulf Of Maine?
Gulf of Mexico
Is the tanker war the gulf war was named?
The so called "Tanker War" fought in the original "Persian Gulf War" in the 1980's between Iran and Iraq was in the Persian Gulf...that's the name of it.
